Parallel Paths.

September, 2018.

sonder
n.
the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk. A big metal bird in the sky, filled with people- tourist out to explore,men in suits on business trips, back home to see family, away from home to pursue higher education- passing another metal bird if only for a fleeting second of acknowledgment.
Sonder. The world is full of obscure sorrows.